Original story: Security researchers have uncovered rare malware that can infect a Linux machine’s boot process, making it harder to detect and remove. The malware is known as a bootkit, which is ...

Linuxでは基本的にシステムの初期設定をするので、 Linux以前の状態ではほとんどの初期設定処理は不要です。 Linux以前ではLinuxをロードする対象であるSDRAM領域を初期化する処理は必要となります。一般的な組込みLinuxボードでは大容量フラッシュROM上にLinux ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Linux developers are in the process of patching a high-severity vulnerability that, in certain cases, allows the installation of malware that runs at the firmware level, giving infections access to ...

Linux users, almost by definition, like to get their hands dirty, and understand how their computer really works under the hood. Although it may sound fairly obvious, the boot process actually ...

Users with dual-boot setups running both Linux and Windows may encounter boot issues following a recent Windows update. This problem affects many Linux distributions, causing systems to fail during ...

米セキュリティ企業のEclypsiumは7月29日(現地時間)、GRUB2ブートローダーに存在する脆弱性「BootHole」について報告した。 GRUB2 ...